Girish Mahajan (Editor)

55th Academy Awards

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Produced by
  
Howard W. Koch

Best Picture
  
Gandhi

Most nominations
  
Gandhi (11)

Other ceremonies
  
1982, 1984

Site
  
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Directed by
  
Marty Pasetta

Most awards
  
Gandhi (8)

Date
  
11 April 1983

Director
  
Marty Pasetta

55th Academy Awards httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumb8

Hosted by
  
Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, Walter Matthau

Location
  
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, United States

Hosts
  
Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, Walter Matthau

The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau. The awards were dominated by the Best Picture winner Gandhi, which won eight awards out of its eleven nominations.

Contents

Louis Gossett, Jr. became the first African-American actor to win Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the tough and principled drill sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman.

Meryl Streep won her first Best Actress award. She had been nominated the year before for The French Lieutenant's Woman and would be nominated another thirteen times in the next thirty years. Streep had previously won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1979 for Kramer vs Kramer.

This marked the first of 28 consecutive years where a Barbara Walters interview special aired before the ceremony. Walters had previously aired an interview special in 1981 and in subsequent years, her special aired prior to the Academy's formal broadcast of celebrities walking the red carpet.

Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().

Honorary Academy Award

  • Mickey Rooney
  • Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

  • Walter Mirisch
  • Presenters and performers

    The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

    References

    55th Academy Awards Wikipedia